Authors: RAJ KUMAR
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Rajarao was one of the most significant Indian novelists in English during the middle decades of the 20th century. His novel ‘Kanthapura' explores the facts of the freedom struggle in India. The novel basically deals with how Gandhi Gad influenced the minds of the Indians. This article also explores how the people of Kanthapura were influenced by Gandhi's thought.

Keywords: Kanthapura; Gandhi; Truth; Untouchables; Moorthy.;

Authors: MR.SINDBAZ
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Under the formation of a polycentric world order, the analysis of the existing social-cultural and political-legal foundations for the development of inter-civilizational dialogue becomes especially relevant. For Russia, the priority task is to fi new grounds in the turn to the East to intensify relations with the countries of the Global South and border states. The authors use the tools of civilizational political science to consider the political-legal foundations of interaction between Russia and Mongolia as states-civilizations - the contractual basis and political discourse that determine the key directions of development of relations between Russia and Mongolia under Russia’s turn to the East. The authors assess the representation of the civilizational factor in the historical and currently valid political-legal documents; propose ways for its strengthening through the consolidation of those provisions that aff the civilizational dimension of bilateral relations in the interests of specifying and intensifying Russian Mongolian cooperation. Based on the materials of the exposition in the National Museum of Chinggis Khaan (Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar), the article provides a brief description of the stages of development of the Mongolian civilization and its historical-cultural heritage as a platform for intercivilizational and interstate cooperation in the form of bilateral relations between Russia and Mongolia, the RussiaMongolia-China triangle and more global forms of interaction with the participation of the statescivilizations of Eurasia and BRICS. As a result of the conducted research, the authors show, on the one hand, the insuffi and fragmentation of the regulation of Russian-Mongolian relations at the level of bilateral agreements; on the other hand, signifi provisions of a “civilizational” nature in the fundamental foreign policy documents of both countries. Together with the need to formalize inter-civilizational cooperation at the international level and the historical role of the Mongolian and Russian civilizations in Eurasia, this allows to identify some prospects for developing such provisions and introducing new ones in the international regulatory frameworks by both Russia and Mongolia in order to ensure a solid value-ideological, social-cultural and political-legal foundation for a polycentric world.

Keywords: civilizational political science; states-civilizations; intercivilizational interaction; Russian Mongolian relations and international treaties; Mongolian civilization; Russian civilization;

Authors: MR. DEEPAK KUMAR
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The progressive process of automobilization providing a comfortable life entails many negative consequences such as safety risks for the environment and people, limited space for physical movement in the city and traffic jams, the scale of which is constantly increasing. This range of problems determines the growing interest of social sciences and humanities in the culture of automobilization as an important element of contemporary social realities. Accordingly, there is a need for sociological tools to identify the problems of road users, their subjective assessments of the possibilities of minimizing the negative consequences of growing automobilization and of increasing the efficiency of practical solutions for improving the functioning of the urban environment. The authors’ study aimed at analyzing the attitudes of the population of a large Russian city (Krasnodar) to the risks of automobilization and at identifying the dependence of such social risks on a kind of “irrational” components of stable social representations of road users. In particular, the article presents an attempt to classify the actors of automobile traffic in the urban environment of a large regional center according to their subjective and objective features. The authors argue that today the automobile, being in essence a material part of social-economic relations, significantly influences the culture of society as a whole, contributing to the formation of certain values and norms, meanings and symbols and acting as a means of demonstrating social status and selfexpression through consumer behavior.

Keywords: automobilization; large city; transport infrastructure; consumer culture; behavior culture; identity; social status; consumer behavior;

Authors: TANVEER MAHAL
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The article presents an overview of the VI International Scientific-Practical Conference “Social dynamics of population and human potential” held on June 20-21 by the Institute of Socio-Economic Studies of Population of the FCTAS RAS with the support of the Department of Social Sciences of the RAS, Research Institute for Healthcare Organization and Medical Management, Research Institute on Issues of Socio-Economic Statistics of the Federal State Statistics Service, Vologda Scientific Centre of the RAS, and the Department of Sociology of Family and Demography of the Moscow State University. The plenary session covered a wide range of issues and various aspects of human potential and social problems, including mobility in different types of cities, national development goals, poverty, population decline and stratification, and the impact of state support on childbirth. Students and teachers of the RUDN University made presentations at the conference: at the thematic sections, they considered religious values in the contemporary Russian society and issues of national identity; the role of gentrification and its different aspects, and healthy lifestyle components; the urgent issues of sociology of management such as the role of Mendelian manager in organizational adaptation. The round table focused on the potential of artificial intelligence and its risks, especially in education, and some conclusions were made, including the low level of commitment to healthy lifestyles, the need to create equal conditions for all city dwellers, and negative effects of artificial intelligence on critical thinking.

Keywords: human potential; health; social mobility; family; childbirth; traditional values; artificial intelligence;